I would much sooner go into Guestwick, and live as the Eames do." "I think you are ungrateful, Bell." "No; I am not ungrateful.

And as to consulting, Bernard, I should be much more inclined to consult you than him about my marriage.

If you would let me look on you altogether as a brother, I should think little of promising to marry no one whom you did not approve." But such an agreement between them would by no means have suited Bernard's views.

He had thought, some four or five weeks back, that he was not personally very anxious for this match.

He had declared to himself that he liked his cousin well enough; that it would be a good thing for him to settle himself; that his uncle was reasonable in his wishes and sufficiently liberal in his offers; and that, therefore, he would marry.